At least 9 wounded, 2 fatally, in shootings across city

A 25-year-old man was shot here about 5 a.m. on July 14, 2012. The black sedan pictured was rammed by an SUV before getting shot at a few minutes later, according to witnesses.

A 25-year-old man was shot here about 5 a.m. on July 14, 2012. The black sedan pictured was rammed by an SUV before getting shot at a few minutes later, according to witnesses. (Peter Nickeas / Chicago Tribune)

Two people were killed and seven others were wounded in shootings across the city Friday night and Saturday morning, police said.

A 25-year-old man in a car with three other people was shot fifteen minutes after the vehicle was rammed by an SUV in the Avondale neighborhood early Saturday morning, according to police and witnesses.

The Avondale shooting happened about 5 a.m. The victim was in the front seat of a black sedan that exited the Kennedy Expressway and ended up going north on Kimball Avenue toward Belmont Avenue, said Martha Galvez, 28, who was in the car.

It was on Kimball that Galvez said the group noticed a black SUV that appeared to be chasing them.

"It felt like we were being followed, like they wanted to ram us," she said.

The sedan turned west onto Belmont but was rammed on the driver side and then swerved into a van on the other side of the street before coming to rest in front of a gas station at the corner of Kimball and Belmont.

The two back-seat passengers left while Martha and the 25-year-old man waited for a tow truck. Shortly after a tow truck arrived, someone started shooting from a gangway between two commercial buildings across the street.

Two men from the tow company and Galvez's friend all ducked but Galvez said she didn't move because she didn't know how to react. The tow truck drivers left after the shooting. The 25-year-old was hit in the leg or groin area, police said, and is in serious condition at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.

A woman who asked not to be identified working at a nearby business said she was standing outside and saw the accident. She was inside when she heard the gunfire, which sounded like it came from the lots south of the buildings on Belmont. Galvez said she saw some type of vehicle back up behind the buildings from where the shots came and assumed the shooter jumped in before it took off.

A black Audi, owned by a man having breakfast in a nearby diner, was shot twice as the gunman shot toward the sedan. The Audi was draped in police tape and its owner's departure was delayed until an evidence technician could get to the scene and get the bullets out of his car.

Police said they believed the incident was gang-related, which Galvez denied.

Someone in a light-colored sedan shot at two men on a porch about 3:30 a.m. in the 9600 block of South Peoria Street in the Longwood Manor neighborhood, police said. Two men, 27 and 29, were both grazed in their sides. The younger refused medical attention and the 29-year-old is in good condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center, police said.

A 19-year-old man was shot about 3:15 a.m. in the 3100 block of South Keeler Avenue in the Little Village neighborhood and is in good condition, police said. It's not known which hospital he was taken to.

About 2:02 a.m., a 26-year-old man was shot on the 1100 block of South Whipple Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez. The man was walking on that block when he began having an argument with several people on a porch.

The argument led to a shoot out between the victim and the people on the porch. The victim, who was injured, ran to the 1100 block of South Sacramento Avenue where he collapsed, Perez said. A hand gun was recovered near the man's body. Police were looking for two people, Perez said.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshot wounds to his thigh and groin area where he was pronounced dead at 8:31 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. The man was identified as James Bell of the 300 block of West Polk Street.

Mark Carney, 26, was shot about 1:40 a.m. in the 1800 block of South Sangamon Street in a drive-by shooting in the Pilsen neighborhood, police said. Carney of the 1800 block of South Peoria Street was pronounced dead at 6:01 a.m. at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to the medical examiner's office.

The man was walking on the sidewalk when witnesses told police they saw a 2-door gold car drive by and saw someone shooting at the man from the vehicle, Perez said.

A 22-year-old man sitting in a car in the 4800 block of South Seeley Avenue in the Back of the Yards neighborhood was approached by an unknown assailant and shot about 1:45 a.m., police said. He was grazed in the head and is in good condition at Holy Cross Hospital, Gaines said.

A 22-year-old woman was grazed in the arm and hand in the 10100 block of South Perry Avenue in the Fernwood neighborhood about 1 a.m., police said. She refused medical treatment from paramedics.

About 10:45 p.m. Friday, a 24-year-old man was grazed in the chest and arm in the Goose Island neighborhood. He was shot in the 700 block of West Scott Street, near Halsted and Division streets, police said. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was treated before he was released, police said.

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